(Written for KALW radio request to speak about the youth perspective on the elections.)
I’m a hot commodity in these presidential elections. And if you’re under 30, you are too. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never picked up a newspaper and I’m a journalism student. We’re practically the same person.
That is, according to the media [...]
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Stories
“Do I Know You?” Characterizing the Youth Vote
March 18, 2008 – 6:31 pm
Talking Politics with Grandma
March 9, 2008 – 5:48 pm
Sometime between the banter about Georgia weather and a riveting discussion on the redeeming qualities of lettuce, it hit me. My grandmother and I were talking politics.
And not just the “our country is in a mess” rhetoric. We were analyzing candidates as this 80-year-old Southern woman articulately explained NAFTA to me. She even knew the [...]
The Next Power Block
March 2, 2008 – 7:13 pm
Forget 2008 and courting the Latino vote. When elections came around again in two years, the knock out vote will come from the country’s growing number of….Indians.
Asian Indians, as the census refers to this ethnic group, are steadily increasing, not only in number but in prestige, financial power and political involvement. Take for example one [...]
Obama’s Serenade
February 25, 2008 – 9:17 am
Barak Obama has more than a growing fan club in Texas; he has a serenade.
The latest Spanish-language ad flooding the Texas airwaves features a sombrero-clad mariachi band walking down the street and reciting, “Viva Obama!” in baritone.
The singer coos about Obama’s dedication to working-class Latinos and keeping families united. He mentions support from the [...]
Substituting One Bush For Another
February 18, 2008 – 3:59 pm
It may be too hazardous to sell a President Bush and McCain combo right now, but daddy works fine.
Former President George H.W. Bush endorsed John McCain’s presidential campaign this Monday, a move McCain hinted at on Friday. But the President’s Day aspect had a nice touch to it, so Bush used the holiday to speak [...]
Tales from the polls
February 5, 2008 – 9:43 pm
It used to be simple.
Then I moved from the East Coast to California and everything changed. I found myself voting on propositions most people have never heard of but become experts on once inside the voting booth. But that has turned out to be the simplest part of the process.
Today, near Berkeley’s campus for the [...]
